Increased support from Republicans appears to be one of the factors buoying Vice President Kamala Harris with four weeks until Election Day in her White House showdown with former President Donald Trump, according to a new national poll.
A New York Times/Siena College poll released Tuesday found that among likely voters nationwide, the vice president and Democratic presidential nominee has an approval rating of 49%, while the former president and Republican nominee has an approval rating of 46%. are.
According to polls, in districts with multiple candidates, Harris has a 47% lead and Trump has a 44% lead. Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Liberal Chase Oliver each received 1%, with about 7% undecided about whether to support another candidate.
Although within the poll’s sampling error, Harris’ lead is up from last month’s New York Times/Siena poll, when the two major party candidates were deadlocked at 47 percent.
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The new poll’s top-line numbers are within the range of most other national polls, showing the vice president with a slight advantage over Trump.
Polls show Harris’ approval rating among Republican voters is 9%, up 4 points from last month.
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Harris ramped up her efforts last week to appeal to some of the most visible anti-Trump Republicans and disaffected Republicans in the town that claims the birthplace of the Republican Party.
Harris campaigned in the battleground state of Wisconsin. Former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and once a rising conservative star in the Republican Party, she is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and a former rising conservative star of the Republican Party, in an effort to prevent President Trump from returning in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. To the power that I vowed to do my best for.
Vice President Kamala Harris teams up with former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney at a campaign event in Ripon, Wisconsin, October 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Cheney told the audience that she was officially endorsing the Democratic presidential candidate, saying, “I have never voted for a Democrat, but this year I will proudly vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.” “As a conservative, a patriot, a mother, and someone who respects the Constitution, I am honored to join her in this urgent cause.”
Harris praised Cheney as a leader who is “a true patriot who puts country over party and himself before himself.”
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The campaign was held in Ripon, Wisconsin. There, the one-room schoolhouse is designated a National Historic Landmark for its role in 1854 in hosting a series of conventions that led to the formation of the Republican Party.
The new poll also shows that Harris is solidifying her support among older voters and, for the first time, slightly ahead of Trump in being perceived as a transformational candidate.
Former President Trump addresses a crowd at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was attempted to be killed by an assassin on July 13, Saturday, October 5, 2024. (Matthew McDermott, Fox News Digital)
This is crucial in a campaign where voters have repeatedly shared with pollsters their belief that the country is heading in the wrong direction. And the Trump campaign has used this polling data to repeatedly link Harris to President Biden and his administration in the nearly three months since she replaced her as the top 2024 Democratic candidate.
public opinion poll It was held from September 29th to October. On the 6th, 3,385 people believed to be voters across the country were questioned. The overall sampling error for the survey is plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.
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